The Feeder Protection Relay of the Negros Oriental Cooperative 2 has given up, resulting in a series of power interruptions Thursday night, the NORECO management said.

Ephraim Taclob, general manager of the cooperative, made the clarification because of queries from consumers inconvenienced by five successive trip-offs, at four minute-intervals Thursday night.

Taclob said maintenance teams dispatched to check on possible line faults, to no avail because the power kept tripping off. It was remedied only when the feeder protection relay of Feeder 3 was isolated and bypassed, he said. He said there is need to recalibrate the feeder protection relay as part of its desire to maintain efficient service. NORECO 2 also intends to adjust the relays to higher capacity settings giving tolerance to overloads, by technicians from Manila, he said.*JG

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